. >> obama: just to be clear, i'm not going to sign any package that presents rates going up for folks at the top 2%. >> he wasn't clear enough. he didn't say which country. [ laughter ] >> he has to be much more precise. >> stephanie: jay carney excooed it again. >> a deal by republicans that rates on the top 2% the wealthiest americans, have to rise. there is no deal without that acknowledgment, and without a concrete mathematically sound proposal. >> stephanie: oh my god, i'm reading the chyron right now. the white house has only offered a joke according to boehner. representative are you reading anything new >> what is going on here is that the republicans understand that they are going to have to put over a trillion dollars of revenue into this agreement, and they are coming to terms with how to get the votes within their conference to do it. and i honestly think that that will happen about two weeks from now. i'm focused more on the taxes and less on the jobs. the jobs numbers is good but not good enough yet. part of this deal has to be jobs right now. more transportation constru